"We're nowhere near the point where an AI can do your job, but we're well past the point where your boss can be suckered into firing you and replacing you with a bot that fails at doing your job." (Pluralistic) - Technology - Mbin
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  • Eldritch@lemmy.worldEnglish
    12·
    9 months ago

    The real kicker here is. The group most able to currently be replaced and least likely to be replaced is management.

    • DandomRude@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      9 months ago

      That’s absolutely right, because unfortunately AI can’t sit in pointless meetings and pretend to know what it’s doing without being asked.

  • deaf_fish@lemm.eeEnglish
    3·
    9 months ago

    My boss was so excited when we got a private company instance of chatGPT that we could use. He was encouraging everyone to find ways to use it.

  • Optional@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    9 months ago

    The modern Mechanical Turk – a division of Amazon that employs low-waged “clickworkers,” many of them overseas – modernizes the dumbwaiter by hiding low-waged workforces behind a veneer of automation. The MTurk is an abstract “cloud” of human intelligence (the tasks MTurks perform are called “HITs,” which stands for “Human Intelligence Tasks”).

    This is such a truism that techies in India joke that “AI” stands for “absent Indians.” Or, to use Jathan Sadowski’s wonderful term: “Potemkin AI”:

    Cripes.